Pro-drug hedonists want people to have drugs so they won't be miserable - even if they die.

Anti-drug fascists want people to be miserable and enslaved, so they emphasize torture and prosecutorial over-reach, even though their sadism weakens the state that arms them and the nation that gave them birth.

While the pro-drug and anti-drug fanatics descend further into insanity, society deteriorates. When the inevitable crisis causes a noticeable breakdown of civilization, it will be painful, but at least the normies will be forced to log in and smell the ashes.

I know cyberpunk is all about drugs and vice, but at some point you have to start separating fiction from reality. Nihilism and drugs are stuff that's cool to read about, not something you would unironically want in your life but you are still a fag if you support the war on drugs.

Somewhat true, it applies 100% to opiates while other drugs sometimes differ from meds like nootropics that most scientists use only in that ones are prohibited and others are not. And i'm not even talking about the use of drugs in combat.

The states propaganda has been doing the exact opposite except in the case of a few 'kosher' drugs - i.e. alcohol, nicotine, caffiene, etc. - which don't encourage dissolution of the state's culture or the questioning of it's values.

Remember that the first victims of the war 'on' drugs (which has now devolved into working with cartels) were the psychedelic/entheogenic family of drugs.